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Islamic Liberation Theology
Abstract
This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically depleted in its confrontation with colonialism. Rather we are seeing the emergence of the US as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and the rising need for a new Islamic theodicy. The combination of political salience and theoretical force makes Islamic Liberation Theology a cornerstone of a whole new generation of thinking about political Islamism and a compelling read for anyone interested in contemporary Islam, current affairs and US foreign policy. Dabashi drives his well-supported and thoroughly documented points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style.
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“In Dabashi's account, throughout the previous century, Islamic liberation theology's combative conversations with an abstracted and essentialized Western colonial 'other' resulted in Islam's gradual transmutation into 'a singular site of ideological resistance to foreign domination' (p. 60).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“Whereas wadud draws on Buber's I-Thou formulation to negotiate a gender-inclusive conception of tawhid , Dabashi's proposal for an Islamic liberation theodicy that accommodates the inclusion of the non-Muslim 'other' and accepts Islam's theological and ideological 'other' is modeled after Emmanuel Levinas's (1961) conception of the 'other' as the locus of ethical responsibility.”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“Undermining the latter development, however, the ongoing decentering of the empire and the correspondent globalization of Islam through massive labor migration has created a condition whereby Muslims are able to rediscover their worldly cosmopolitanism (p. 160).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“Such a liberation theodicy must necessarily be in coalition, rather than combative rivalry, with its own alternatives. It must be conversant with non-Islamic ideologies of resistance while remaining decidedly Muslim, and it must 'speak a universal language, from the bosom of its particularity' (p. 255).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“This transmutation, critical as it was for mobilizing popular anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance, distorted Islam's worldly disposition and gave rise to fanatical tendencies, which rejected the universal notions of gender equality and equal civil rights (p. 44).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“Although he acknowledges Shariati as a Muslim revolutionary who took steps in the direction of 'cosmopolitan and transnational solidarities' (Dabashi 2008, p. 115), Dabashi nevertheless argues the liberative potential of Shariati's Islamic theology was severed and exhausted by his gravitation toward Islamist identitarianism (p. 111).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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“Drawing on the medieval Islamic doctrine of 'Unity in Diversity', he makes a case that for an Islamic liberation theodicy of the future to reconcile diversity in creation with the singularity of the divine, it 'will have to posit a polytheist vision of the world at the root of its monotheist theology' (p. 258).”
From Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle (2023) · cites this paper as Dabashi 2008
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dabashi, H.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dabashi, Hamid
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2008-05-14
- OpenAlex
- W635979095
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.14
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Theology and Sovereignty
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
- Keywords
- clash of civilizations, Islam and the West, political Islam, American imperialism, colonialism, US foreign policy, post-9/11, Hamid Dabashi
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